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Lähettäjä: Boruch Baum
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Vastaanottaja: dng
Aihe: Re: [DNG] booting old system on a different partition
On 2016-05-09 00:18, Peter Olson wrote:
> So, I installed the Devuan beta a few days ago and it is great, rather it almost
> mostly works. I probably need an audio driver installed. I want to see what
> the old system had installed.
>
> So I cleared out another partition and moved the backup of my Debian 8.3 onto
> it. Ran update-grub, which found the backup in its new location.
>
> But, when I try to boot it grub is confused and is pinned to the old UUID of the
> root filesystem. (I have already updated /etc/fstab in the restored backup, but
> it is not even getting that far.) It just dumps me into busybox saying it can't
> find the root fs. Gotta love grub, which is useful only when nothing is wrong
> :-)
>
> Any advice about how to proceed?
>
> Peter Olson


And, just a reminder of this last step:

code:
update-grub # again

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